Dawoodi Bohra Masjid, Sydney — Australia's Bohra Community

Sydney is the center of the Dawoodi Bohra community in Australia, one of the most geographically distant diaspora communities from the heartland of Gujarat. The Australian Bohra community arrived in several waves — first from East Africa, then directly from Gujarat and other parts of India, and increasingly as professionals and students from the late 20th century onwards. Despite the vast distance from the traditional Bohra centers of Gujarat and Surat, the Sydney Bohra community has maintained a remarkable fidelity to Bohra practice, language, and walayah. The Ashara Mubaraka majalis held in Sydney each year draw mumineen from across Australia — from Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide — creating a brief but intensely felt gathering of the scattered Australian mumin community. The community's masjid serves as the center for daily prayers, religious education for children, and the full cycle of Bohra observances from milad celebrations to Eid prayers. Syedna (TUS) and his representatives have visited Australia, bringing the physical presence of the Dawat to the farthest inhabited continent on earth — a testament to the global reach of the Imam's mission through the Dai al-Mutlaq.